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Apr 17, 2022 · Enlightened egoism is the conviction that benefitting others—acting to increase their happiness—can serve the egoist’s self-interest just as much as the egoist’s acts directly in favor of him or herself. As opposed to altruism, which claims that it’s our ethical responsibility to serve others, the enlightened egoist’s generosity is ...
Aug 14, 2023 · Enlightened self-interest is a product of balance among narrow self-interests, community or shared-interests, and altruistic or other-interests. Enlightened self-interest suggests that we cannot simply maximize or minimize any one particular aspect or dimension of our lives. We cannot be driven solely by greed, by altruism, or by concern for ...
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Nov 4, 2002 · Egoism. First published Mon Nov 4, 2002. Egoism can be a descriptive or a normative position. Psychological egoism, the most famous descriptive position, claims that each person has but one ultimate aim: her own welfare. Normative forms of egoism make claims about what one ought to do, rather than describe what one does do.
Apr 16, 2020 · The physician–patient relationship is a dyad in which egoism and altruism may converge in an enlightened way that acknowledges that the interests of one are the interests of the whole. Students pursue medicine for self-fulfillment in cognitive, emotional, technical, and social desires—all of which can then be used to benefit others.
- Laura Vearrier
- 10.1007/s10730-020-09406-8
- 2020
- HEC Forum. 2020; 32(2): 147-161.
Dec 17, 2012 · Enlightened self-interest means that everybody wins. The recognition that being committed to another’s well being is personally fulfilling is the basis of a cycle of mutual generosity that ...
Nov 4, 2002 · Psychological egoism claims that each person has but one ultimate aim: her own welfare. This allows for action that fails to maximize perceived self-interest, but rules out the sort of behavior psychological egoists like to target — such as altruistic behavior or motivation by thoughts of duty alone.
May 29, 2018 · Egoism refers primarily to a theory of ethics, although in philosophical usage it sometimes also designates a theory of knowledge. As an epistemological position, egoism is treated under solipsism. In ethics, egoism maintains that each man should seek his own good and ignore that of others, except when this would be to his disadvantage.
